Transgressive : a trans woman on gender, feminism and politics / Rachel Anne Williams.

Trans-gressive : a trans woman on gender, feminism and politics

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.

272 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-265) and index.

Trans feminine blues -- Trans porn, trans women, and the fetishization of "t-gurls" -- Trans women and male privilege -- Trannies, traps, and the third gender -- Becoming the woman I never was -- Embracing ambiguity -- On being an angry tranny -- Feminist musings -- Trans feminism is real feminism -- The paradoxical duality of cat-calling as a trans woman -- Dysphoria as a symptom of modernity -- Sapiosexualism is here to stay -- Why I was not born in the wrong body -- The inherent superiority of softness -- Nobody is trans enough -- The three waves of trans feminism -- Life in transition -- Let us grow -- Early days of transition : a phenomenology of change -- Learning to say "fuck it" to passing -- Hyper-vigilance in the gender machine -- gender and politics -- Monster politics : on being an assemblage -- Is the very concept of "passing" problematic? -- The "truscum" debate -- Radical feminism, essentialism, and normality -- Autogynephilia, the gift that keeps on giving -- Gender hacking, bio-sex, and the new identity politics -- A plea for agnosticism in an age of ardor -- There I go again, thinking I have a basic right to exist in society -- Sacred bullshit : a rebuttal to Dan Harris -- Metaphysics and epistemology -- Against the sex/gender distinction -- Trans without transition? : a critique of gender identity -- How do I know I am trans? -- Brains, vats, and radical feminism -- Gender agnosticism -- The promise and failure of gender nihilism -- Sex changes -- Autobiographical notes -- Giving up my male privilege -- U-hauling, radical vulnerability, and the existential feels of queer, poly love -- "That's so crazy!" : ableism, madness, and the politics of perfect language -- Queering personal finance -- t4t -- Learning to love myself.